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Quotation is a good thing, there is a community of thought in it.

Samuel Johnson

Community, Good Things

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Sometimes you lose your way; you walk in the twilight of a forest; and suddenly you see an old but a beautiful house. And that old mossy house is a good quotation! It is old because it has wisdom; it is beautiful because it gives you a hope!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

Beautiful, Twilight, Giving

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I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in the swing of your hips. My fingers will dig in you like quotation marks, blazing your limbs into parts of speech.

Jeffrey McDaniel

Rip, Swings, Speech

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In the dime stores and bus stations  People talk of situations  Read books, repeat quotations  Draw conclusions on the wall  Some speak of the future  My love she speaks softly  She knows there’s no success like failure  And that failure’s no success at all -Bob Dylan, “Love Minus Zero / No Limit” (1965)

Bob Dylan

Zero, Wall, Book

Love Minus Zero/ No Limit (1965 song)

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I remember the will said, 'May God thy gold refine.' That must be from the Bible." "Shakespeare," Turtle said. All quotations were either from the Bible or Shakespeare.

Ellen Raskin

Turtles, Gold, May

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That quotation about not having time to stand and stare has never applied to me. I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much - in just standing and staring and I was at it again this morning.

James Herriot

Morning, Too Much, Staring

James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.187, Pan Macmillan

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Jewels, lies, slips of paper, dried flowers, memories of thing long past, useless quotations, idle hands, beads, buttons, and mischief.

Holly Black

Memories, Lying, Flower

Holly Black (2013). “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown”, p.23, Hachette UK

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Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Simeon Strunsky

Knowledge, Fame, Remarks

No Mean City ch. 38 (1944)

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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.

Mortimer Adler

Motivational, Education, Book

"Book of Humorous Quotations". Book by Connie Robertson, 1998.

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That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

Carolyn Heilbrun

Use It Or Lose It, Insulting, Use

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If physicists could not quote in the text, they would not feel that much was lost with respect to advancement of knowledge of the natural world. If historians could not quote, they would deem it a disastrous impediment to the communication of knowledge about the past. A luxury for physicists, quotation is a necessity for historians, indispensable to historiography.

J. H. Hexter

Communication, Knowledge, Science

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No future historian of the United States will be able to use quotations from her twentieth-century poets in support of an imperial policy of conquest and slaughter.

Alice Corbin Henderson

War, Support, United States

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John Arlott

Inspiration, Laughing, Cricket

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Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and their fascinating history.

Marjorie Garber

Book, Wells, Wanted

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History is not just about dates and quotations. And it's not just about politics, the military and social issues, though much of it of course is about that. It's about everything. It's about life history. It's human. And we have to see it that way. We have to teach it that way. We have to read it that way. It's about art, music, literature, money, science, love - the human experience.

David McCullough

Art, Military, Issues

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At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

Twilight, Book, Beer

Oscar Wilde (2000). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.239, OUP Oxford

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Beware the writer who always encloses the word *reality* in quotation marks: He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.

Edward Abbey

Reality, Trying, Quotation Marks

Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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Avoid overuse of 'quotation “marks.”'

William Safire

Quotation Marks, Mark

William Safire, Leonard Safir (1990). “Words of Wisdom”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Beauty, May, Delight

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Human success is a quotation from overhead.

Charles Henry Parkhurst

Inspirational, Motivation, Overhead

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For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still others accept and read it but do not really explore and ponder it. The book is to be feasted upon, not nibbled (see 2 Nephi 31:20).

Neal A. Maxwell

Book, Church, Use

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I keep bumping into that silly quotation attributed to me that says 640K of memory is enough. There's never a citation; the quotation just floats like a rumor, repeated again and again.

Bill Gates

Memories, Silly, Rumor

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My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest, stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness—what old and hard-worked staleness, masquerading as the all-new!

D. H. Lawrence

Dirty, Cabbage, Juice

Letter to Aldous and Maria Huxley, 15 August 1928, in H. T. Moore (ed.) 'Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence' (1962) vol. 2

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I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

David Lodge

Art, Men, Dying

David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.433, Penguin

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I have never found a better way to enhance the communications process than by reinforcing the points or concepts I wish to make with timely, memorable quotations.

Carolyn Warner

Communication, Memorable, Wish

Carolyn Warner (2010). “The Words of Extraordinary Women”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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